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"Bust or break or bend her": Short-haul shanties. Haul away, Joe ; Boney (Jean François) ; John Dameray ; Johnny Boker ; Haul on the bowline ; Paddy Doyle -- "Up aloft that yard must go": Halyard shanties. So handy ; Poor old man ; Whiskey, Johnny ; Blow the man down ; Come down, you bunch of roses, come down ; Reuben Ranzo ; Blow, boys, blow ; Tommy's gone to Hilo ; Hanging Johnny ; Huckleberry hunting ; Roll the cotton down ; The Alabama ; A long time ago ; Shallo Brown ; Gimme de banjo ; Hello, somebody ; Rise me up from down below ; The drunken sailor ; We'll roll the golden chariot along ; Highland laddie -- "Heave away!": Capstan, windlass, and pump shanties. Paddy, get back ; A-roving ; Can't they dance the polka! ; Heave away ; Rio Grande ; Sacramento ; South Australia ; Johnny walk along to Hilo ; John Brown's body ; Sally Brown ; Shenandoah ; Santy Anna ; Lowlands ; Stormalong ; Susiana ; Campañero ; Ja, Ja, Ja! ; Homeward bound ; Time for us to leave her -- Deep-water songs. The leaving of Liverpool ; Roll, Julia, roll (Row, bullies row) ; Off to sea once more ; Sailor's way ; Big five-gallon jar ; Paddy West ; As I went a-walking down Ratcliffe Highway ; Mainsail haul ; Banks of Newfoundland ; The dreadnought ; The City of Baltimore (Bold McCarthy) ; The light on Cape May ; The stately southerner ; The Cumberland's crew ; The Flying Cloud ; Bold Manning ; The bold Princess Royal ; The female warrior ; The ship Rambolee (The loss of the Ramillies) ; Lady Franklin's lament ; The Flying Dutchman ; The first of the emigrants ; The coast of Peru ; Swansea town ; Rolling home ; The sailor's grace ; The sailor's grave ; The ocean burial ; The sailor boy ; Let go the reef tackle ; The anchor's aweigh ; They all love Jack ; We'll have another drink before the boat shoves off (The sailor's hornpipe) ; When Johnson's ale was new ; Our Jack's come home today ; Little golden ring ; In measure time we'll row (round) ; Call John the boatman (round) ; Southerly wind (round) -- Ballads of the fishing banks. The spring trip of the schooner Ambition ; A trip to the Grand Banks ; The ghostly crew ; Canso Strait ; The gale of August, '27 ; The loss of the Cedar Grove -- Forecastle songs of the West Indies trade. Corbitt's barkentine ; The Donzella and the Ceylon ; The loss of the Druid ; The schooner Kandahar ; The schooner Blizzard ; The Ebenezer ; Bound down to Newfoundland -- The shantyboy's life. The lumberman's alphabet ; The shantyboys' song ; The lumber camp song ; A shantyman's life ; The Winter of '73 (McCullam Camp) ; Tomah Stream ; Burns's log camp ; The boys of the island ; McKinley Brook ; Harry Dunne ; Young Forbest ; Peter Emberley ; The scow on Cowden Shore ; The jam on Gerry's Rock ; The maids of Simcoe ; Whalen's fate (George Whalen) ; Jack Haggerty (The flat river girl) ; The banks of the Gaspereaux ; The plain golden band ; The red light saloon ; Tom Dixon ; The mouth of the Tobique (fiddle tune) -- Satirists of the sawdust country. The gull decoy ; The History of Prince Edward Island ; Beware of Larry Gorman ; Young Billy Crane ; Byrontown ; Rufus's mare ; The messenger song ; Perigoo's horse ; Duffy's hotel -- Ballads of bold adventure. I am a wild young Irish boy ; Come all you bold Canadians ; The dying soldier ; The Famous Light Brigade ; The soldier and the sailor ; I'm a decent boy from Ireland -- Minstrelsy of murder. The wife of Kelso (The wily auld Carle) ; Mary on the silvery tide ; The old oak tree ; The millman song ; The jealous lover ; The Wexford girl ; Charles Gustavus Anderson -- The banks of the roses: Romantic ballads and love songs. Jack Tar ; The silk merchant's daughter ; The jolly young sailor and the beautiful queen ; The dark-eyed sailor ; The Lady of the lake ; Sally Monroe ; The Nightingale ; The maid I left behind ; Were you ever in Dumbarton? ; Paisley officer ; Burns and his highland Mary ; Who's that at my bedroom window? (The drowsy sleeper) ; The banks of the roses ; Two lovers discoursing ; The Irish girl's lament

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-371)

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